Jacob M. Howard

Jacob Merritt Howard (10 July 1805-2 April 1871) was a member of the US House of Representatives (W-MI 1) from 4 March 1841 to 4 March 1843 (succeeding Isaac E. Crary and preceding Robert McClelland) and a US Senator (R) from 17 January 1862 to 4 March 1871 (succeeding Kinsley S. Bingham and preceding Thomas W. Ferry).

Biography
Jacob Merritt Howard was born in Shaftsbury, Vermont in 1805, and he became a lawyer in Detroit, Michigan in 1833. He served in the US House of Representatives from 1841 to 1843 as a Whig, and he later served as Michigan Attorney General from 1855 to 1860 and as a US Senator from 1862 to 1871. He helped President Abraham Lincoln with devising the Thirteenth Amendment, and he left office in 1871, dying a month later.